60NYT > Edouard Manettopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/edouard_manet/index.html?rss=1<p>The paradoxes of the life and art of Edouard Manet (1832-83) are many. Contemporary critics placed him at the end of a tradition, as a painter lacking inventiveness, too dependent on quoting or paraphrasing the works of old masters like Raphael, Velazquez, Hals and Goya. Others cast him as a rebel battling against the stale works of the reigning academics. Later critics, with more justice, saw Manet as a definitive modernist, a precursor of the Impressionists. But while Manet befriended the Impressionists and was a generous benefactor to Monet, he chose not to be shown with them in their controversial exhibitions of the 1870's.</p>
<p>In 1863 Manet achieved notoriety if not acclaim by exhibiting at the first Salon des Refuses. Established by Napoleon III to accommodate the outcasts, it was held in the 12 galleries adjacent to the official Salon. There, Manet's painting "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe," depicting a nude woman and another, only partly clad, dining with two fully dressed men, caused a public commotion. The Emperor deemed it "immodest"; critics scored its vulgarity.</p>
<p>The son of a well-to-do judge, Manet was a fascinating oddity: a rebel in art and a republican in politics who preferred to keep up appearances and the subterfuges of his class. It was only in 1863, after his father died and he gained a substantial inheritance, that Manet finally married Suzanne Leenhoff, his former music teacher and his mistress of 13 years. His wife and their 11-year-old son, Lon (for appearance' sake passed off as Suzanne's younger brother and Manet's godchild), were then installed with his widowed mother in a perfectly kept bourgeois household. There, as she had done for years, Manet's mother presided over Thursday dinners to which he regularly invited his friends. It was apt that the testy Degas, in one of his disagreements with Manet, should have reminded him, "It's not today that I discovered what a bourgeois you are." "Sure," Manet replied, "as bourgeois as you like. But I've paid my dues."</p>
<p> </p>Copyright 2014 The New York Times Companyen-usTue 03 Mar 2015 17:44:35 -0500http://static01.nyt.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gifNYThttp://www.nytimes.comManet Canvas Sets Record at Christie's $166-Million Sale of Impressionist Arthttp://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/06/arts/06reuters-art-auction.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA celebrated 1881 portrait by French Impressionist Edouard Manet on Wednesday smashed the record for the artist when it sold for $65.1 million at Christie's, going far towards the auction house's solid total takings of $165.6 million.By REUTERSThu, 06 Nov 2014 11:42:18 -0500http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/06/arts/06reuters-art-auction.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssA Manet Portrait Fuels High Prices on a Competitive Night for Christie&#8217;shttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/arts/design/a-manet-portrait-fuels-high-prices-on-a-competitive-night-for-christies.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/arts/design/a-manet-portrait-fuels-high-prices-on-a-competitive-night-for-christies.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/06/nyregion/altAUCTION1/altAUCTION1-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>The artist&#8217;s 1881 painting of the actress Jeanne Demarsy was bought by the J. 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megafair also include some unusual beds and a bunch of blue sculptures.By KEVIN MCGARRYFri, 18 Oct 2013 15:05:59 -0400http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/all-the-rage-replicas-of-caterers-faux-antiquities-and-other-art-world-microtrends-at-frieze-london/?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssHow Italy Cast a Spell Over Manethttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/arts/06iht-manet06.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/arts/06iht-manet06.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/06/06/arts/06iht-manet06-span/06iht-manet06-span-thumbStandard.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="75" hspace="4" align="left"/></a>In "Manet: The Return to Venice," a far-ranging exhibition in the Doge's Palace in Venice, works are shown that illustrate how the Old Masters inspired the French artist.By RODERICK CONWAY MORRISThu, 06 Jun 2013 14:00:00 -0400http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/arts/06iht-manet06.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rssCrowds Line Up for Manet 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